Improved bed-bottom



Cdnited gemist @einer @imite Letters Patent No. 95,945, dated October 19, 1869.

IMPROVED BED-BOTTOM.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part of the same.

To all 'whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, W. C. SMITH, of Warrensburg, in the county of Johnson, and the State ot' Missouri, have invented a new and improved Bed- Bottom; and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specitication of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature andprinciples of 'my said invention, by-which it may be distinguished from all others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim, and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention.

b b are intended to represent the lend railsof a bedstead.

h is one of the side rails, the front rail removed, to show other parts more perfectly.

g g are vstrips ofwood, two inches wide on their horizontal surfaces, and firmly attached to the inner and lower margin of the side rails h.'

c c c, 86e., are transverse slats.

d' al d are two pieces of strong web-girthing, or other suitable material, attac-hed to the end rails by means of the hook and eye, or staple, shown in tig. 2, the hook designated by the letter n, and the eye by the letter 1n..

The slats c, &c., are securely attached to the girthing aty their ends, at regular distances from each other.

te a a, &c., are rollers of wood, about three inches in diameter, and of proportional width, placed midway between the slats, beneath the girth, and attached to it by nails, or otherwise secured, so as to turn when one or more of the slats ure depressed, causing the. others to rise, thus fitting to the undulations ot' the body, pressing equally all the parts in contact.

The strips q g support the rollers.

I claim, in combination with a bed-bottom, the rollers or pulleys a, resting upon the strips g,- the girths d and the slats o, rounded on the under side, all constructed as described, and for the purposes set forth.

W'. O. SMITH,

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